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the only thing that i find interesting about any theology/rhetoric of dark vs. light, sons of evil and sons of heaven, etc, etc....is why people come to beleive in them. the particulars change across cultures, situations, and times, but the outcomes are usually quite similar, including but not limited to extremist violence.
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I tend to agree with Nietzsche's explanation for this in his argument for the revaluation of values. This sort of religious notion of "sons of evil and sons of heaven" stems from the innovation of slave morality as a weapon against the elites in society.
The moral paradigm originally consisted of good/bad - the good being the ruling elite and the bad being the impovershed, uneducated members of society. Then, with the arrival of Judeo-Christian tradition, the paradigm evolved into the dichotomy of good/evil, wherin the good were the humble and impovershed, and the evil were the oppressing "nobility". Thus, the sons of heaven became the humble and lowly - the "good" - and the sons of hell became the oppressive and "materialistic" nobles - the "evil".
Just my thoughts.